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Indoor air quality

December 3, 2008

The New DWS range of Downflow Workstations from Air Science
give the operator safety where routine work is being carried out, the company
says. These units operate at low noise levels and because they re-circulate, they
do not exhaust expensive conditioned and/or heated air into the atmosphere. DWS
Workstations have been specifically designed to provide a small bench mounted
unit with unrestricted access for those operations that are difficult to
perform in a conventional fume hood. The downflow action takes the contaminated
air away from the operator and an alarm will sound when the airflow falls to an
unacceptable level, the company says. The main filter can be chosen from 14
different types of carbon, and HEPA filters for particulate filtration are also
available to suit the application.